Mike Quigley Is Your New Rahm Emanuel

It was a nail-biter, folks! Illinois’ 5th District held a special election after Rahm Emanuel left his post to go whisper evil imprecations in the ear of our malleable and naive young king, Barack Obama. Two contenders emerged: Cook County Commissioner and known Democrat Mike Quigley, and the deranged Freeper Rosanna Pulido. Ms. Pulido put up a valiant fight, but without national Republican support could not prevail over the Democratic Machine, which decided to put Quigley over the top with oh like 70 percent of the vote. What is this, Russia? [Chicago Tribune]

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A Demrat overwhelmingly wins in a heavily Demrat district against a moran wingnut who hates herself. Only one solution…

RECOUNT, you betchya!

Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish!

The question is how long will it take the new congressman to realize it just wasn’t worth it to get a phone call in the middle of the night from some hypercaffeinated ballet dancer with a semi-Chicago accent screaming, “Quiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigley!!!!”

Canmon (the Inadequate)

Recount!

magic titty

Yes We Can?

Rush

“Mike Quigley Is Your New Rahm Emanuel”

Quigley’s Jewish??

charlesdegoal

Largely meaningless so-called by-election. Nothing to do with Britain, where Rahm E would have to run for his own seat, or to save his own ass, or something. Whatever.

Quigley told supporters at a North Side tavern that he knows he will initially be recognized in Washington as “the guy taking Rahm Emanuel’s seat,”…

Rahm Emanuel always thought of it as his fucking seat.

Noodle Salad

Waiting for Michael Steele to compare Illinois and Moldova in 5…4…3…

norbizness

That is not the shape of a human head.

DoctorCulturae

When will they have the ceremonial digit circumcision?

hobospacejunkie

Mike Quigley Is Your New Rahm Emanuel

So he’s a 9½-fingered shouty Jew who’s helping give away trillions to undeserving failed banks & their failure managers? Or just another powerless freshman rep about to get pwned by Cantor’s beyond-silly youtube ambushes? And when I say pwned I mean slightly annoyed, then brushed off like so much lint off a cheap suit.

AngryBlakGuy

…but since he didn’t get 110% of the vote in that district, it is obviously shows the failure of Barack Obama’s presidency!!!

Come here a minute

Rahm’s coming back after his White House stint, so Quigley better enjoy it while he can (i.e, get a hold of Rahm’s bribe guy).

Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish!

Won’t Quigley have to go in the IDF for a few years if he wants Rahm’s seat?

AngryBlakGuy

…they went from Rahm Emmanuel, a guy that looks like he should be a rival boss to Tony Soprano, to some guy named Quigley, who looks like he should be working in a “Bed Bath & Beyond”?! Chicago you FAIL!!!

McDuff

Just keep’n the seat warm here boss.

Just keep’n the seat warm there Luke.

Min

I see lots of profanity in his future.

Advocatus_Diaboli

[re=283600]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: only 110%? This is Chicago, after all; he should have had 300% of the vote.

McDuff

[re=283621]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]: The Chicago Machine must be slipping — Rahm forgot to vote, the block captains forgot to give out the silver dollars outside the polls, and the ward bosses forgot to wake up the cemeteries. Come on Junior, get it together or pretty soon there’ll be a Republican on the Sanitary Commission!